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Happy New Year! Koreans welcome first sunrise of 2016
(PHOTO NEWS)

Visitors gather on a beach in the city of Sokcho on South Korea’s east coast on Jan. 1, 2016, to view the New Year’s first sunrise and make their New Year’s wishes. (Yonhap)

Visitors gather on a beach in the city of Gangneung on South Korea’s east coast on Jan. 1, 2016, to view the New Year’s first sunrise and make their New Year’s wishes. (Yonhap)

The sun rises over a sculpture of baby monkeys on Ganjeol Cape, a coastal point where a sunrise can be viewed earliest on the Korean Peninsula, on the coast of Ulsan in southeastern South Korea on Jan. 1, 2016, as visitors gather around the monument to view the New Year’s first sunrise and make their New Year’s wishes. The monument was set up to celebrate the new year, which falls on the year of the monkey in the Oriental zodiac. (Yonhap)